Maya Angelou once said, “It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.”
When George Floyd said that he couldn’t breathe not only was he talking about himself but he was also talking about this country. Now another unarmed black man is dead because there are still a lot of folks in America that truly believe that Black Lives DON’T Matter.
Four Minneapolis police officers have been fired but George Floyd’s family and the rest of the African American community are still mourning his death. When Colin Kaepernick first took a knee on August 26, 2016 during the national anthem of a preseason game he was specific in why he was doing it. When interviewed after that game he told reporters that he was protesting against police brutality, racial and social injustice.
In 2015, according to Mapping Police Violence, police in America killed 104 unarmed blacks. That’s nearly twice per week.
Kaepernick was as clear as a Vodka with why he was doing what he was doing. However, most Americans that didn’t look like him, including our President, tried to change the narrative by saying that he was disrespecting the flag. Why? Because Black Lives Really Don’t Matter to many folks that don’t have to worry about being killed by the police. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
It always blows my mind when idiots bring up black on black crime when the subject of police killing black folks comes up. They’ll jump out of the birthday cake butt naked foamin’ at the mouth saying that 93 percent of all black homicides are committed by black people. Yet fail to mention that 83 percent of all white homicides are committed by white people. It’s the dumbest thing ever repeated.
Pookie and Ray-Ray out on the street aren’t being paid to protect and serve the communities we live in. Pookie and Ray-Ray haven’t been trained to defuse situations nor are they being paid to keep us safe. So to bring up what Pookie and Ray-Ray or anybody else is doing is asinine.
Racism is the vehicle that keeps driving through our communities killing our people and it continues because racism keeps giving it a pass. It wasn’t just the officer that had his foot on George Floyd’s neck that killed him. It was all of the other officers that stood around and allowed it to happen.
It wasn’t just the idiots that killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia but it was the prosecutor that refused to arrest them for killing the man. It wasn’t just the cops that killed Michael Brown, Philando Castillo, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner and others. It was the folks that stood around and allowed it to happen. Racism is driving the car that nobody cares about.
It was the grand juries that decided NOT to charge these clowns with a crime. It was the institution of American racism that is still alive and well that continues to fuel the flames of hate in this country.
If a man is lying on the ground in handcuffs he’s not a threat. However, hate wanted to see him dead. Hate allowed other police officers to stand around and not check their boy. Hate allows people to tell the world that he was resisting arrest and most importantly hate tells us that Colin Kaepernick was disrespecting the flag that gives us the very right to peaceably protest injustice in America.
When someone says that they want to “Make America Great Again” ask them when was it ever great? If it hasn’t been great to ALL of us its never been great. Stop me when I start lyin’!